🕯️ Mizoch Remembrance 🕯️

My great grandmother Golde Grabarnik Barr's family came from the small shtetl of Mizoch (Mizocz) in present day Ukraine.

On 12 October 1942 the German occupiers closed-off the Mizoch ghetto of about 1,700 Jews in preparation for the liquidation action. The Jews fought back in an uprising which may have lasted as long as two days. About half the residents were able to flee or hide during the confusion before the uprising was put down. On October 14, the inmates of the ghetto set fire to their houses allowing some to escape - but about 200 people died in the flames of the ghetto.

On 14 and 15 October the captured survivors were transported in lorries to a secluded ravine and shot near the sugar factory outside the town.

I have heard that Golde's father, my great great grandfather, at one time had owned a sugar mill in Mizoch.

On this rare occasion photographs were taken by a German soldier during this 'aktion'. Five of these photos survive today ... I can't help but think that many in these photos I see are my distant cousins, uncles and aunts ...

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